Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing – GC 09 Trailer

Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing is a racing game currently in production for Wii and Nintendo DS, featuring characters from both the Sonic universe and other Sega franchises. It is being published by Sega and developed by U.K.-based Sumo Digital. It was announced on May 28, 2009 and is due to come out in 2010.

Gameplay

The game is a standard mascot kart racing game, very similar to other games in its genre like Mario Kart and Crash Team Racing. Characters race through various race circuits themed on different Sega franchises and collect power-ups to boost their speed or hamper their opponents. Like Sumo’s previous Sega game, Sega Superstars Tennis, each character has a special ability (called an “All-Star Move”) unique to them that they may use to their advantage (such as Sonic transforming into Super Sonic and AiAi riding in marbles), which they can obtain if they are running behind in the race. The game will have multiplayer options for up to four players on split-screen and eight players online.

The game was showcased at E3 2009, where it was stated that the final version of the game will have over 20 different characters.

In the Gamescon Trailer, Knuckles, Billy Hatcher, Alex Kidd, and Beat from Jet Set Radio were revealed to be playable racers.

Confirmed Characters

* Sonic the Hedgehog
* Miles “Tails” Prower
* Knuckles The Echidna
* Doctor Eggman
* Amy Rose
* Shadow the Hedgehog
* Big the Cat
* Billy Hatcher
* AiAi from Super Monkey Ball
* Amigo from Samba de Amigo
* Alex Kidd
* Beat from Jet Set Radio

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